Module C Module C Representation and TextRepresentation and Text

Elective 1: Telling the TruthElective 1: Telling the Truth

Emma Le Marquand

Colyton High School Trade School

This module requires students to explore various explore various representationsrepresentations of of events, personalities or situationsevents, personalities or situations.. They evaluate how medium of evaluate how medium of production, textual form, perspective and choice of language influence production, textual form, perspective and choice of language influence meaningmeaning.. The study develops students’ understanding of the relationships students’ understanding of the relationships between representation and meaning.between representation and meaning.

Each elective in this module requires the study of one prescribed text offering a representation of an event, personality or situation. Students are also required Students are also required to supplement this study with texts of their own choosing which provide a to supplement this study with texts of their own choosing which provide a variety of representations of that event, personality or situation. These texts variety of representations of that event, personality or situation. These texts are to be drawn from a variety of sources, in a range of genres and mediaare to be drawn from a variety of sources, in a range of genres and media ..

Students explore the ways in which different media present information and ideas different media present information and ideas to to understand how various textual forms and their media of production offer understand how various textual forms and their media of production offer different versions and perspectives for a range of audiences and purposesdifferent versions and perspectives for a range of audiences and purposes. .

Students develop a range of imaginative, interpretive and analytical compositions that relate to different forms and media of representation. These compositions may be realised in a variety of forms and media.

English SyllabusEnglish Syllabus ~ Representation and Representation and TextText

Elective 1: Telling the TruthIn their responding and composing, students consider representations of consider representations of the truth.the truth. They explore the processes by which statements come to be explore the processes by which statements come to be accepted as true, question who has the authority to make those accepted as true, question who has the authority to make those statements, and examine the ways in which those statements are statements, and examine the ways in which those statements are explored, tested, and endorsed or refuted.explored, tested, and endorsed or refuted.

MediaSitch, Rob et al, Frontline, ABC, 1994 ‘The Siege’, ‘We Ain’t Got Dames’, ‘Playing the Ego Card’, ‘Add Sex and Stir’, ‘Smaller Fish to Fry’, ‘This Night of Nights’

Prescribed Text List

Module CRepresentation

Meaning Medium of Production Textual Form Choice of languagePerspective

PerspectivesDifferent versions AudienceEvent or situation Purpose

Processes Question AuthorityStatements Explored

/TestedEndorsed Refuted

Frontline Support Texts

Better responses to Module C questions demonstrated a thorough understanding of the relationship between representation and meaning. Representation refers to the way ideas way ideas

are portrayedare portrayed through texts and implies someone’s perspectiveimplies someone’s perspective, their point of view. (2005)

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Better responses insightfully engaged with …how the truth was represented and how this representation challenged the candidates’ ways of thinking.

The better responses demonstrated a sophisticated, conceptual understanding of the module (2005)

Candidates are expected to form an opinion and form an opinion and develop a responsedevelop a response, appropriate to the form of the question, which demonstrates understanding of the relationships between representation and meaning. (2005)

They were able to construct an insightful, cohesive insightful, cohesive and unified thesis which demonstrated conceptual and unified thesis which demonstrated conceptual understanding and evaluationunderstanding and evaluation (2003)

Better responses presented a perceptive thesis demonstrating an insightful conceptual understanding of Telling the Truth (2007)

• Advancements in technology have led to a dispersal of authority

•More than one medium needed in order to establish authority

•Need to establish credibility in order to survive refutation

• the process in which representations of things come to replace the things being represented . . the representations become more important than the "real thing"

•We don’t engage in ‘real’ life, we play games, watch tv, download youtube and these become our sense of reality

•In a world in which hyper reality dominates, something becomes truth simply by being published

Further reading: Baudrillard, Eco

Candidates were asked to investigate what the composers of the text had to say about an event, personality or situation, how these composers presented their viewpoints and to determine the inferred meaning (2005)

understanding of the motivation of the composers of this text (2005)

Purpose and Audience in Purpose and Audience in FrontlineFrontline

• To entertain

• To gain an audience (and a profile)

• Educated, cynical audience

• Sense of superiority

• Satirical, but not vicious

able to integrate the discussion of the techniques the composers use to represent a point of view (2001)

Weaker responses tended to describe aspects of the elective and/or module rather than drawing conclusions about how the composer used techniques to shape meaning and position the responder in a particular way. (2006)

awareness of the media of production and approached this aspect either explicitly through a discussion or implicitly through the conceptual framework that informed the response. (2004)

A number of candidates did not acknowledge the actual composer but saw the characters in the texts as thecomposers (2001)

Brooke changes her question in order to emphasis the lesbian focus of the story.

Sitch et al use the duplicitous actions of Brooke …..

‘So long as you’re happy’

‘She’s gonna be back here working the room’

Piers Akerman

http://www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/opinion/story/0,22049,21877416-5001031,00.html

The Garrett recession

By Piers AkermanJune 10, 2007 12:00

THE pathetic response of Labor and the major voices in the Australian environmental movement to the Government's climate change initiatives gives the lie to the notion that environmentalists have the interests of the nation at heart.

This lapse is on a par with deputy leader Julia Gillard's lunatic 2004 proposal for Medicare Gold and her appalling ignorance of the need to separate administrative and judicial functions, disclosed in the IR policy she co-authored with the ACTU's Greg Combet.

Akerman

• Extremely high modality

• Emotive, insulting language

• Positioning reader to be an idiot if they disagree

• Extremity of view point

• Arrogance

http://myspace.com/warondemocracy

War on democracy friends

But you do get the feeling sometimes, watching Nelson, that he is working his way towards some kind of political climax.He is easily aroused by petrol, and the smallest nudge northwards to the price of unleaded can provoke an ecstasy of oratory.

He has a new weakness for solar panels, and an old one for human tragedy. And we have all suspected since the budget that he is keeping a glossy catalogue of Taragos under his bed.Nelson's most passionate moments in Parliament come when he is able to combine several themes at once.

Like his recent censure speech against the Prime Minister, when he spoke excitedly of petrol queues half a kilometre long, consisting in part of "Taragos, with a wheelchair in the back, and five kids".

Stiff opposition inspired by USAnnabel CrabbJune 7, 2008

Here's the epiphany I had: Brendan Nelson is in the wrong country.

The sentiment, the autobiographical detail, the attachment to the flag, the moist-eyed appeals on behalf of Beryl Stringbags - they may sit oddly in Australian politics at times, but if he were in the United States, Nelson would be but a crazy preacher away from the Democratic nomination by now.

On Thursday, the Opposition Leader visited Phil May and Sophia Moody, who run a Queanbeyan solar panel business and now may well qualify as the most politically-exploited couple in Australia, having hosted Rudd in happier times last year.

At the closing of his press conference, Nelson picked up the couple's toddler and, swivelling to face the cameras, delivered a throaty appeal to the Prime Minister to explain to the child why her parents should have to suffer from the partial withdrawal of the solar panel rebate. How can you deny a child the solar panel rebate that is her birthright?

This "Vote Nelson, or the baby gets it" technique is still pretty unusual in Australia, where the voters have been raised on much plainer fare than their American counterparts